Here is how random and thus how frightening this kind of shooting is: at the hotel where I work the chef, Khambay, said today that a friend of hers was in the airport when this shooting occurred. He had just retrieved his bag, was walking out of the baggage area with a backpack on his back and bullets whizzed past him. One hit his backpack. Some shrapnel from a ricocheted bullet hit his hand. He stopped and fell to the ground for no reason other than instinct.
Had it not been for the laptop in his backpack, which stopped a bullet, he could have been killed. He went to the hospital but just had some fragments removed from his hand and he was fine.
This is how close we all are. Six degrees from friendship, from separation, sometimes from the knowledge of death. Nightclubs, bistros, sports arenas, walks along the beach, airports, schools, a city street. All and more are targets. Sometimes, most times, those who are killed or injured were just in the wrong place at that specific time.
It's one more reason to be at peace with yourself and make sure others know you love them. Just saying.
Peace. Please. Pay attention.
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